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Betts on His Knee Injury

From Jason Reid:

Running back Ladell Betts, who sprained his knee in the fourth quarter, finished with 32 yards on seven rushes.

"I need to find out if I have to get an MRI," Betts said. "I just remember waiting to set up my blocks, one of the guys was pulling for me, and right when I went to plant and cut, I think I got hit at the same time.

"My knee just felt like it buckled. It felt awkward. I knew something wasn't right."

That old cliche about turnovers is true. If the skins hadn't made any today, they'd have won.

Too many mistakes, too.

What I'm MOST curious about was, why was Torrance covering the Rams #2 receiver? I get Rogers on Holt--and ANOTHER great game by the former Mr. Double-move. Was Smoot out with his injury? Was Springs leg too iffy to risky it?

Smoot was on the sidelines... the Moose said something about that as the play finished.
Landry coasted to a stop right after Torrance made the tackle.
Tough play, but the defense did its job today.
20 points. Offense has to put up 20.

Mr Cork, I too was perplexed as to why 29 was covering that guy on that deep route at the end. Looks like Kendall took this one hard. That was a bone-headed play. Bat it down and worst we get is a field goal and its 10-3

Jansen better not say one word about being benched when "big boy" comes back. His pass blocking was pathetic at best. Soups was under way too much presure with 4 and 5 man fronts. With all due respect to our D, where's the pash rush???

Torrence was a big reason for one of the big kickoff returns and if I'm not mistaken was the one who missed the tackle on the big punt return. Kickoff, he lost his outside containment and they took it outside.... He gave up the big "under thrown" ball against the Philly loss last year too. He has to find the ball. I don't like him as a nickle back at all. Never have.

THE COACHES ARE DOING A POOR JOB WITH THE ROOKIES. ITS NO WAY DEVIN SHOULDN'T BE DOING SOMETHING OUT THERE. JAMES THRASH IS NOT A NUMBER 2 RECIEVER. ZORN NEED TO STOP HIS CORNY PHRASES AND COACH. WHY NOT EVEN GET DAVIS THE BALL. TRADE COOLEY !!!!!!!!! WE WON'T HAVE A CHASE IF DEVIN DOSN'T COME AROUND !!!!!!!!!!!! YES MOSS IS THE #1 DEVEN SHOULD BE #2 RANDLE EL SLOT. WHY WAS TOREENCE OUT THERE MAN 2 MAN WHEN YOU HAVE SMOOT, ROGERS, AND SPINGS. POOR COACHING BY GREG. HE COST US THE GAME . CARLOS WAS HAVING HIS BEST GAME OF THE SEASON.

I was out all day chasing Grizzly bears. Sorry about the loss, but I wrote earlier in the week that this was a dangerous game for the 'Skins. They're a good team, but not a great team yet. They aren't good enough yet to overcome multiple turnovers, no matter what team they play. That's why the Giants are the Super Bowl champs. We're 2nd in our division, 1/2 game ahead of Dallas, and that's where we should be right now. Clearly, the Rams weren't scared into submission by Washington's record or its performance against the Eagles, Cowboys, Cardinals, or Saints. It's back to the drawing board, and hopefully they'll start working on a pass rush. Besides the punting game, that's the glaring weakness....

WE GAVE UP A SECOND FOR NO SHOW TAYLOR WHAT A JOKE, VINNY YOU NEED TO BE FIRED. WHATS GOING ON WIT DE JAMES WE GOT FROM THE VIKES ? WE HAVE NO PASS RUSH, GREG IS SO WORRIED ABOUT GETTING BEAT OVER THE TOP HE WON'T BLITZ. GREG I HOPE YOU READ THIS " YOU DONT HAVE ANY PRO BOWLERS ON THAT D LINE YOU HAVE TO BLITZ". DEVEN THOMAS HAS THE SIZE AND THE SPEED ON THE GO ROUTES AND FADES. ZORN HAS SOME GIBBS LIKE WAYS BEING LOYAL TO SLOW MAN THRASH. THIS TEAM WILL GO 7-9 IF THE DONT GET DEVEN GOING. WHY CANT THIS TOWN SEE WE HAVE NO PASS RUSH !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! GREG WISE UP AND PLAY WIT SOME BALLS, STOP SAYING CHRIS ISNT GOOD. HE LOOKING LIKE TH BEST SAFETY ON THIS TEAM. JASEN NEEDS TO BE BENCHED !!!!!!!!!!!! I WOULD RATHER HAVE THE ROOKIE IN THERE IF STEPHON CANT GO. THIS WILL BE A 6-10 TEAM IF THE Z MAN DOEN'T FIX THE TRAIN RECK 11111111111111

This game was tailor made for us to lose. We just came off two very emotional wins, the Rams had a week off and a new coach (and not a bad one at that) and Zorn is still learning. I am not to surprised. On a different note, we needed to play badly to have this team beat us at the last second. We need a punter. Our special teams are going to kill us in the play-offs.

Wait, the D was responsible for 12 pts, and at least half of that was because of big kick/punt returns. While I'd like to see more of a pass rush, that was not the problem.
Lots of little errors added up. Zorn -- and the team -- have some work to do. As a rookie coach should... if it were that easy, everyone would hire rookie coaches. As it is, look how many recycles we get...

Notwithstanding today's events, the Skins are still a good team. They still have a very good chance to go 3-1 in the second quarter. And when the season began, nobody would have predicted the Skins would be 4-2 given their schedule.

uhhhh...... Poolman, saying you lost your rent money on a 13 pt spread just makes your points less believable.. It shows you need to get two jobs and not watch football, b/c the Skins have only won by an avg margin of less than a TD each week...D was not the problem today, unless you count the 2 dropped picks again today that both ended up as 3 pts for the Rams instead of being Skins ball

I say let up on Pete Kendall. How was his decision to push for more inches (like Portis and Betts and Cooley and Moss and El do) exactly "boneheaded"? You don't count on being stripped of the ball -- and Rams were stripping a lot of different players all game. I feel sorry for the guy that a heads-up ball recovery on his part ended badly. But I don't feel sorry for the Cowgirls' punter!!

XInt -
Regarding the Kendall fumble, lineman are taught to knock down those passes. Rarely does anything good comes from a lineman trying to advance the ball. As Zorn says, take your lumps and give me another chance to call a play.

IMO, Special teams was the problem today. Yeah there were turnovers, and the defense gave up a huge play at the worst possible moment. But overall, defense played very well. So did the offesne, they drove for the go ahead TD, that is all you can ask after they had turned the ball over 3 times. Kendall is blameless!!! Dude trying to make a play...if you want to blame a linemanm Jansen is the first and only one on the list IMO. Only reason Kendall has to catch and run is becasue Jansen got steamrolled or ran around yet again to allow JC to get smashed. Jansen directly responsible for 2/3 turnovers. Cooley laid one down, but nobody is giving him crap when he gets laid out and makes the All Pro play right before the Kendall debacle play. And the reason JC was not going down the field to MOss et al is bacause the Left DE for the Rams was spending his entire day flushing Jason or worse. I for one hope Heyer's shoulder is good to go from here on out.

Back to teams. THEY SUCK!!! The punter sucked, and when he didn't, the coverage could not tackle. Second week in a row Suisham kicks it out of bounds?? Here is an idea Danny Smith, teach your coverage team to contain and tackle, and you don't have to tell Suisham to kick it to the corner of the field. The only time the Rams offense did anything all day was when Teams gave up huge yards in the return game. And tell your return blockers to actually block on punt return, and tell them NOT to get in the way and tackle your own return man. Other than that, they played great. Criminey.

4-2. I'll take it. Redskins are good enough to beat anybody in the league when they don't beat themselves. Today they did. I expect a spirited week of practice, a refocus on paying attention to detail, and a win next week.

I agree, this was a Special Teams loss more than any ONE spot on the team. All the field goals came on short field, made it way too easy for them move the ball 20 yards and get points out of it.

Torrence was on the field cuz Smoot was on the sideline, still haven't heard why, but he was. If anything this might be a shot at keeping Tryon and not putting him on the Practice Squad, and keeping Richardson on the Active Roster.

And definietly a shot at Brooks, but I don't want Frost either. At least Brooks is just a rookie, still could get better, Frost is who he is, PERIOD.

Still a good football team, this type of a loss should be good for them over the length of the season, something to remind them that they are not invinicible.

The defense didn't give up an offensive touchdown, should be able to win that type of game. Period. Zorn and the offense have work to do, and he WAS a bit conservative, was it because of Jansen on the field? I wonder.

You think Jasno will stop spouting about Jansen now? He run-blocked well again, but got schooled in the pass blocking again.

I spoke of the poor coverage of our special teams last week and it was ignored. When your punter sucks AND your coverage sucks, you've got serious issues that the Skins seemed to gloss over in the glow of a four game winning streak (I don't want to even talk about the kick off out of bounds!). Special teams may not have cost us this game (They certainly didn't help) but if there is not dramatic improvement, I mean really dramatic improvement, they will indeed cost us a game when it matters most. I guess we can all shelve this playoff talk because no team with special teams this bad goes very far. Tighten up 'Skins!

I spoke of the poor coverage of our special teams last week and it was ignored.
You obviously didn't see the petition we all signed to make Brooks punt longer, higher, and with more hang time.
We might have to step it up a notch and pass a resolution condemning bad punts.

I saw it daggar but think that coverage was also very poor when his punts were acceptable. Absolutely no consistancy. I will step up and sign any petition to help Brooks punt higher, longer, and with more hang time.

i agree about brooks. he will get better. i remember that the skins gave up on a lot of rookie punters that are now doing well with other teams. of course there are not many left because of age. gibbs would give up on rookie kickers and go with vets. look at the eagles kicker. he was a skin and now he is doing well.